illumination

3 min read 2022-01-18 20:00:00

Illuminations from the 12th-Century Encyclopedia, Hortus Deliciarum

The Hortus Deliciarum (Garden of Delights) is an encyclopedia compiled by Herrad von Landsberg, who was abbess of Hohenburg Abbey on Mount Odilien in

3 min read 2022-01-04 08:01:33

My Aussie mate Chris Lianos knows that every year I select a focus word to be my guiding theme and was curious why I hadn’t blogged about it as

9 min read 2021-12-21 07:24:58

Things are getting exciting at the future site of Universal’s Epic Universe. Construction on backstage support structures is moving at a rapid

1 min read 2021-11-24 07:58:54

The announcement that Chris Pratt will voice Mario in an upcoming Mario Bros. animated movie is one that some saw coming, but most strongly hated.

1 min read 2021-11-19 09:39:29

Light up the dark winter with illumination events and Holiday Tree lighting events around Richmond. Keep checking back as more events are

1 min read 2021-07-13 02:19:49

Hallways are the thoroughfares of the home. If you took a time lapse photograph of your house and the people in it, the most criss-crossing lines

1 min read 2021-05-22 23:04:35

In this season of Beltane everything is alive and buzzing, or, to quote Austin Osman Spare in The Logomachy of Zos, “all things fornicate all the

6 min read 2021-03-19 06:06:50

~~ Rainbow Bridge, with Tokyo Tower in the background. Tokyo Tower stands beyond the glittering Rainbow Bridge. This typical night view of the

2 min read 2021-01-25 19:58:42

It would be madness to cover the Hebrew alphabet without asking my pal (and Western Civ User’s Guide Irregular) Ilene Winn-Lederer to contribute

6 min read 2021-01-13 12:14:41

There’s something remarkable about holding an illuminated manuscript. It isn’t just the work itself, the artistry, the history leafed onto the

2 min read 2020-12-22 07:29:19

Next holiday season, the new chapter in Illumination’s smash animated franchise returns with big dreams and spectacular hit songs as can-do koala

3 min read 2020-12-15 00:30:56

Ho ho ho! Merry kaiju! Japan really gets into a festive season at this time of year, putting up all sorts of colorful lights that twinkle through

7 min read 2020-12-05 08:26:00

We just discussed the Utah monolith about a week ago, where I wondered if this bizarre media sensation would soon disappear or if it had legs.

2 min read 2020-11-19 09:51:00

Light pollution now affects a quarter of the planet’s land surface. The falling cost of lighting and the expansion of human infrastructure is to

3 min read 2020-11-09 19:00:00

Much like the Miskatonic Repository for Call of Cthulhu, Seventh Edition, the Jonstown Compendium is a curated platform for user-made content,